Bucks County Resident Reports Tainted Halloween Candy

Police in Bucks County are urging parents to thoroughly check all Halloween candy after a resident reported a piece of candy with “a suspicious hole in it.”

According to Bensalem police, the department received a report of a Kit Kat bar received during Halloween trick or treating in the township that had a suspicious hole in the wrapper. The resident took the candy bar to an x-ray facility and nothing metallic was found in the candy, police said.

“The candy was also examined by detectives and it does not appear that it was tampered with or was manipulated with any criminal intent,” police said.

Bensalem Police urge parents to thoroughly check all Halloween candy and report any suspicious candy to the police, authorities said via Facebook.

According to a social media post on Facebook, the Bensalem resident who reported the suspicious candy was trick or treating in the Neshaminy Valley area between Addison Court and Wayne Turn off of Declaration Drive and the streets in between.

“We went to eat a kit Kat bar and needless to say there was a needle mark in the wrapper and when we opened it up it had look like the liquid from the needle had started to eat away at the candy,” the Facebook post said. After taking it to get x-rayed, the employees at Patient First in Feasterville “definitely told us that it was a needle mark and it was tampered with. I just wanted to put this out there so that anyone who got candy from any of those streets, please check your candy.”

The incident followed reports of candy with needles found in Pennsylvania over the weekend.

Police in Chester County say they received multiple reports of tainted Halloween candy. According to the Kennett Square Police Department, a “needle type item” was found inside five wrapped Twix bars given to four different children the evening of October 31 in the Stenning Hills area of the Borough.

Police in Kennett Square are investigating.